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Recent Examples of librettist
The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
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Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
That same year Smith wed the playwright and librettist Beverly Cross, who predeceased her in 1998.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
With the family’s slow but sure Act 2 revival, librettist Lindsey Ferrentino comes into her own.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
Conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera is a collaboration between composer Jonathan Berger, visual artist Enrico Riley and poet/librettist Vievee Francis.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
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Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
That same year Smith wed the playwright and librettist Beverly Cross, who predeceased her in 1998.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 27 Sep. 2024
With the family’s slow but sure Act 2 revival, librettist Lindsey Ferrentino comes into her own.
—Gordon Cox, Variety, 2 Aug. 2024
Conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera is a collaboration between composer Jonathan Berger, visual artist Enrico Riley and poet/librettist Vievee Francis.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
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Performances for the musical from composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice will begin Aug. 1 at the famed Los Angeles venue and run through Aug. 3.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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Everyone says that Steve was the greatest lyricist, but he’s also written some of the greatest, catchiest songs that have ever been written for the musical theater.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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What to expect: Charlotte Symphony will perform work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams in a 360-degree spatial audio experience.—
Laura Barrero,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Foster, 75, is a 16-time Grammy-winning composer and producer who has worked with Celine Dion, Michael Bublé, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Andrea Bocelli, and many others.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2025
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Vineet Kumar Singh plays poet Kalash in Chhaava and has been receiving rave reviews for his performance in the film.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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The area where Black families lived was named after the renowned African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who passed away in 1906.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2025
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The shoes at the show were just as eye-catching as the hats, so large that some models didn’t dare to walk down the stairs to the end of the runway but rather strutted right to the edge of the stairwell—maybe a nod to the storyline of Dracula’s muses not being able to escape.—
Kerane Marcellus,
Essence,
11 Feb. 2025
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The ad, which was directed by Ben Affleck and features Casey Affleck, finds Strong submerged in coffee grounds, refusing to leave his trailer to film his spot for the breakfast chain until the muse appears.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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